Judge rules to allow paternity test on infant

CORPUS CHRISTI - A district judge Friday ruled that police can collect DNA samples from a 41-year-old dance instructor accused of sexually assaulting one of her students and from her 6-month-old daughter to determine who fathered the child.

Sandra Borrego, who was arrested earlier this month, is accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy who took classes at Most Precious Blood Catholic School in late 2006, police said.

The boy, now 14, said he had sexual contact with Borrego on about 20 to 30 occasions behind a curtain in the school's cafeteria and at her house, according to an arrest affidavit.

On Friday, 214th District Judge Jose Longoria denied a request from defense attorney Fred Jimenez to bar authorities from using a search warrant to take the samples. Longoria also ordered those results be sealed until the next hearing, which has not yet been scheduled.

Borrego, who since has been released from the Nueces County Jail on bond, rented space on church property and taught Folklorico dance there for several years, according to Diocese of Corpus Christi officials. She has three other children, ages 17, 15 and 10.

Prosecutor Anna Jimenez said the case still is an ongoing investigation and was unsure when the paternity results would be ready.